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Mental health professionals observe only a very small fraction of the mentally ill ever commit crimes, but some of the problem cases highlight the larger issues facing people and families who struggle to get help.

A Taylorsville man faces criminal charges after police say he coerced teenage boys he met at skate parks to expose themselves to him by offering them gifts or threatening to report their families' citizenship status.

Utah's fourth- and eighth-grade students scored ahead of their national peers in the vocabulary portion of the 2009 and 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading tests, the Utah State Office of Education announced Thursday.

Utah State University basketball player Danny Berger's condition was updated to "fair" Thursday evening, according to hospital officials. Berger's family also released a picture showing Berger awake and alert, giving a thumbs-up.

One in every four Utah students in grades K-8 either is overweight or at-risk of becoming so, according to the Utah Department of Health. At one Centerville elementary school, they're battling the problem with a big goal: to walk around the world.

Thursday night, parents from Soldier Hollow Charter School grilled school officials and members of the Wasatch County Sheriff's Department, wondering what they knew about any sexual misconduct by their principal and when they knew it.

Thousands of images seized from the home of Susan Powell's father-in-law show the missing Utah mother as she walks in public and sits in her car — apparently unaware that someone is taking her picture.